Analysis of Interoperability in the Queensland Disaster Management System

Amirhossein Eslami Andargoli, Peter Bernus, Hadi Kandjani

2013

Abstract

The increasing rate of natural and man-made disaster draws considerable attention from decision makers and planners in communities and governments. Disaster Management projects require the collaboration of several disaster management organizations and it results in heterogeneous systems. Interoperability of these heterogeneous systems is essential in order to enable effective and feasible collaboration among various organizations. This paper investigates interoperability issues in Queensland disaster management by analyzing current Queensland floods using Enterprise Architecture (EA) principles. Finally, a reference model is proposed to improve interoperability in Queensland disaster management system.

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Eslami Andargoli A., Bernus P. and Kandjani H. (2013). Analysis of Interoperability in the Queensland Disaster Management System . In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-61-7, pages 310-317. DOI: 10.5220/0004443503100317


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@conference{iceis13,
author={Amirhossein Eslami Andargoli and Peter Bernus and Hadi Kandjani},
title={Analysis of Interoperability in the Queensland Disaster Management System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2013},
pages={310-317},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004443503100317},
isbn={978-989-8565-61-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - Analysis of Interoperability in the Queensland Disaster Management System
SN - 978-989-8565-61-7
AU - Eslami Andargoli A.
AU - Bernus P.
AU - Kandjani H.
PY - 2013
SP - 310
EP - 317
DO - 10.5220/0004443503100317